Tree Tunnel
Tree Tunnel 2019 Color spitbite aquatint, sugarlift, aquatint. Paper Size: 32” x 32” Edition of 35 Purchase/Inquire For her fifth project with the press, Isca Greenfield-Sanders continues her rich dialogue between photography and painting. Her three new prints, Convertible, Pink Mountain, and Tree Tunnel, are all landscapes depicting roads below her signature horizon line. The road is a perfect means to explore her ongoing examination of photography and its relationship to the American mythos. When we engage with themes of the road, we are led to thoughts of the road west, the human drive to move to somewhere better, the promised land, leisure, escape, the past and the future. It makes me think of Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” and its record-holding time at the top of the music charts. The collective nostalgia for that path or way “home” struck [...]
SF Chronicle
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Datebook by Charles Desmaris | August 17, 2018 Isca Greenfield-Sanders: "Inherited Landscape": There is a great chasm between paintings based on photographs that are intended as representations of the original subject, and paintings made to represent photographs. The first is a socially accepted form of blatant lying, the latter an examination of the way we see and remember. Isca Greenfield-Sanders, a New York artist who has shown often at Berggruen, is a master in the mold of the Bay Area's great Robert Bechtle at capturing the pathos of the world reduced to an entrapped image. Oct. 18-Nov.21, 2018 Berggruen Gallery, 10 Hawthorne St., S.F. 415-781-4629. www.berggruen.com
Landscape Painting Now | From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
. Excerpt from Landscape Painting Now | From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism ISCA GREENFIELD-SANDERS Born 1978, New York, NY, USA. Lives in New York, NYIsca Greenfield-Sanders makes square-format landscape painting, often beach scenes, based on vintage 35mm color slides. Her interest in the still image as a stand-in for memory led her to develop a multistep process that combines photography, watercolor, and oil. She scans and manipulates the source image, creates a watercolor study, enlarges it to a square of thirty-five or sixty-three inches, and transfers it to a canvas using a pair grid that remains faintly visible. The final layer is painted with oils to create depth and allow evidence of the layering beneath. Drawing on her background in visual arts and mathematics, she creates her work in series, sometimes producing up to ten images from a single slide. Greenfield-Sanders’s choices often reveal the amateurish nature of her photographic [...]
Cudjoe Bay
Cudjoe Bay 2014 Screenprint 8 x 8 inches Edition of 175, signed and numbered $350 To purchase the edition, please email lrosenbaum@gcschool.org rhenry@gcschool.org Isca Greenfield-Sanders created the screenprint "Cudjoe Bay" to benefit the Scholarship Fund at Grace Church School.
Sky Beach (Pink)
Sky Beach (Pink) 2004 5 color aquatint and soft ground Paper size: 14½” x 13½” Image size: 7” x 7” Edition of 30 The pair of "Sky Beach" etchings (pink and blue) were created in 2004 with master printer Jennifer Melby in Brooklyn, NY.
Sky Beach (Blue)
Sky Beach (Blue) 2004 5 color aquatint and soft ground Paper size: 14½” x 13½” Image size: 7” x 7” Edition of 30 The pair of "Sky Beach" etchings (pink and blue) were created in 2004 with master printer Jennifer Melby in Brooklyn, NY.
Yellow Suit Diver
Yellow Suit Diver 2006 Color aquatint etching Somerset velvet white paper Image size 21" x 21" Paper size 32" x 31¼" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders collects and reworks photographs as part of her process. She uses images found in discarded family photo collections, selecting the part of each image that contains the most intriguing formal properties. Using modern technologies, she transfers the photographic image onto rice paper so it can serve as the foundation for a painting. At Paulson Press, she worked with a photographic key plate to achieve the same purpose with her prints. Ultimately, Greenfield-Sanders obliterates the actual photo image with paints and inks to uncover the found images’ essential meaning and beauty. [read more="Click here to Read More" less="Read Less"] “The Swimming Pool Etchings” combine centuries old techniques of painting and intaglio printing [...]
Red Suit Diver
Red Suit Diver 2006 Color aquatint etching Somerset velvet white paper Image size 21" x 21" Paper size 32" x 31¼" Edition of 50 Purchase/Inquire Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders collects and reworks photographs as part of her process. She uses images found in discarded family photo collections, selecting the part of each image that contains the most intriguing formal properties. Using modern technologies, she transfers the photographic image onto rice paper so it can serve as the foundation for a painting. At Paulson Press, she worked with a photographic key plate to achieve the same purpose with her prints. Ultimately, Greenfield-Sanders obliterates the actual photo image with paints and inks to uncover the found images’ essential meaning and beauty. [read more="Click here to Read More" less="Read Less"] “The Swimming Pool Etchings” combine centuries old techniques of painting and intaglio printing [...]